Chapter 35 Yang Yan, who seems to have some talent
Cooking is almost a new skill for Yang Yan to learn from scratch. Although he could cook and had learned to fry poached eggs before, at home, the virtuous mother Lu almost never let Yang Yan do or other men in the family interfere in the kitchen. She "passed" her good cooking skills to her daughter, Yang Yan's second sister He Xiaoshi.
Of course, the so-called pass on to his daughter is just a euphemism that Lu's mother retreated to the second line and her daughter who had already married and had children took over the family chores.
So, yesterday evening, after Yang Yan and Luoluo came back from shopping, although they bought food, rice, oil and salt, as well as some ingredients that might be used, he still did not try to cook by himself immediately.
This evening, Yang Yan came back with a large bag of ingredients. He put them on the counter of the oversized kitchen and sorted them while sighing: "I didn't expect to buy ginger and garlic! And there are ingredients like pepper and star anise. Then, the ingredients are soy sauce and soy sauce are not enough. I actually have to buy cooking wine and aged vinegar! Oh, it's really not easy to cook!"
Although he was complaining, Yang Yan still had a gentle smile on his face. He thought this fresh experience was actually quite good!
In order to learn how to cook by yourself, Yang Yan specially checked a lot of information online last night. Combined with the cooking skills of Lu's mother who had seen before, Yang Yan's smart mind soon gained an understanding.
"Cut the beef brisket into pieces and soak it in cold water." Yang Yan saw a lazy recipe online. Although it was just a recipe for one dish, the portion and nutritional ingredients were just suitable for him to eat alone. So Yang Yan bought the beef brisket, washed it, and cut it into pieces on the chopping board.
I don’t know if Xia Yu’s kitchen knife is faster or Yang Yan does have this talent, but he imitated the meat-cutting technique he learned online and cut it in a very good manner!
Although he inevitably cut some of the brisket pieces into large and small, he can use this knife well just by getting started, which is a very good result! You can practice it slowly after the knife skills!
Yang Yan has a good memory. He didn't need to read out the recipes he saw last night to compare them one by one. He put them directly into his mind, step by step, and everything he should do is clearly arranged in his mind!
So, while soaking the beef, Yang Yan peeled the garlic, sliced the ginger, as well as the ingredients such as chili peppers, peppers, star anise, etc. He neatly "coded" it on a porcelain plate according to the portion required in the recipe.
"Not bad!" Yang Yan thought the porcelain plate was beautiful, and his arrangement was also beautiful. He praised himself with entertainment and laughed happily.
The only regret is that he doesn't have a camera, and his mobile phone is even cheaper, so he can only make phone calls and send text messages, otherwise he can take a picture to Xia Yu to see.
Yang Yan could even imagine how crazy the Xia Yu would look like if he couldn't eat it.
What a pity...
People with good brains can get started quickly. Yang Yan heated the oil pan, put on chopped green onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, star anise, and dried peppers to stir-fry. In addition to being worried about being splashed at first, he hid behind him. Then he naturally and relaxed the action of using the spatula, which made people unable to see that it was the first time a rookie chef cooked!
"Well, it's very fragrant!" Yang Yan quickly poured the beef brisket into it, poured light soy sauce and cooking wine according to the recipe's requirements and then stir-fry it.
Of course, many things cannot be fully prepared by recipes, such as Yang Yan needs to judge by himself when mastering the heat.
"It should be OK. Pour the water in and turn off the heat and cook for an hour." Yang Yan did not forget. What he poured in was the boiling water mentioned above the recipe.
During this period of waiting, Luoluo woke up. The little girl liked to stick to her father at night. Even if her father had no time to hold her, she had to look at her father so that she would feel at ease and not cry!
"Dad is making a big meal now!" Yang Yan walked out of the bedroom with a little girl who had just woken up and was sleepy and confused. He took a warm towel and wiped Luo Luo's face. He also gently wiped off the snot under his little nose, and said with a smile, "It's a pity that you can't eat it yet. It doesn't matter. Dad won't let you be a guinea pig. When Dad practices well, he will make delicious food for you in the future!"
Luo Luo's eyes fell on her father's big face. The little guy who had just woken up was still very dazed and felt a cute feeling. After a while, listening to her father's words, she opened her mouth again and yawned lazily.
This yawn is very comfortable!
Yang Yan looked a little "contagious" and wanted to yawn.
"Fortunately it's not a sneeze." Yang Yan shook his head, reached out to scratch his little nose, and smiled, "Let's see how you recover. If you haven't sneezed, you'll get better. We won't take medicine!"
Although Dr. Peng prescribed Chinese patent medicine for Luoluo, Yang Yan felt that it was the medicine three parts poisonous, especially this kind of small cold. After Yang Yan came back, he checked it online. In fact, as long as it was not serious, he didn't need to take medicine and he would get better slowly by himself.
Luo Luo was gently scraped by her father. She subconsciously opened her mouth and smiled at her father. Her big bright eyes seemed to contain a smile of joy, which made Yang Yan feel very happy.
After a while, Yang Yan picked Luo Luo up from the baby trolley behind him again. He made a bottle of milk powder for Luo Luo. However, seeing the little girl who was probably a little hungry bit her pacifier, Yang Yan felt a little worried.
"Does Luo Luo feel that it is not sweet and doesn't like drinking this milk?" Yang Yan remembered the scene when Luo Luo finished drinking medicine in the afternoon and didn't like drinking boiled water. Will the little guy become picky about food because of this?
But for a baby, it is not good to consume too much sugar. There is no way to take medicine. The milk powder does not contain sucrose!
Fortunately, Luo Luo was still the same as before, drinking her "food rations" in big mouthfuls, and her relish look made people think that the milk was delicious.
It is worth mentioning that Luo Luo's "food" is a bit large. Yang Yan has checked it online. Normally, a baby who is nearly four months old like Luo Luo, can eat 600 to 800 ml of milk a day. Of course, this is the total amount, and it has to be fed several times a day, but Luo Luo is different. Although she also eats five to six meals a day (the number of breastfeedings used to be large, but now she can get a longer interval when she grows up), she can drink 200 ml of milk every time!
She doesn't want to eat enough, and she feels that she will make trouble!
Fortunately, Dr. Peng also checked Luo Luo for the worried Yang Yan. Luo Luo's physical development was normal and healthy, so Yang Yan dispelled this worry.
It was a little far away. After Yang Yan asked Luo Luo to have dinner, he settled her in a baby trolley where he could see him. He hurried back to the stove, stir-fry the three peeled tomatoes in another pot, add water and boil it, then pour half into the wok, and then stew the beef brisket.
That's right, what he wants to make is tomato brisket, but the process is a bit long. The beef brisket has to be stewed with tomato sauce for forty minutes, and finally add carrot cubes, potato cubes and remaining tomato sauce to continue cooking...
"It's okay, the food is worth waiting for! Do you think so? Yang Xiaoluo's children's shoes!" Yang Yan smiled, turned around and smiled with Luo Luo lying in the baby trolley.
Luoluo seemed to understand, she twisted inside, shook her little hand and laughed "Hmm, hum, hum" as she laughed.
At this moment, the sound of a key hitting and the door being opened clearly reached Yang Yan's ears.
Yang Yan looked to the hall in surprise.
Chapter completed!